We've released details on the exhibits for "The World in Our Minds 2024: Neurodiversity" @ Chomorrow!

This exhibition features 54 hands-on exhibits from various leading Japanese universities, research institutes, and companies, and is being held to promote a neurodiverse society. The number of exhibits has increased from 33 last year to 54 this year!

Through the experiences offered in this exhibition, we propose that our senses are diverse and that individual differences can be supplemented or enhanced through technology; furthermore, by redesigning existing environments from the perspective of diversity and inclusion, we can realize a neurodiverse society where each and every person can fully realize their potential.

https://neuro-diversity.world/minnou2024/

Please come visit us!

[Press Release]

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000013.000126992.html

[List of Exhibits]
■ A Diverse World

• ・Experience the Difference! Diversity in Perspectives (B Lab)
• • “Can it really look this different?” Experience the wonders of optical illusions (BLab)
• ・Reexamining “Everyday Life” from the Perspective of Intersectionality (Shiraha Laboratory, Jissen Women’s University)
• ・Multisensory Emotion Estimation System (Cognitive Development Robotics Laboratory, The University of Tokyo)
• ・Freely Change Your Stance?! “Stance Poker” (Department of Art and Science, Osaka University of Arts)
• ・"How You Perceive Things," as Captured by Brain Waves (NTT Human Informatics Laboratories)
• ・Asymmetric Communication Using a Naked-Eye 3D Display (Inami and Monnai Laboratory, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
• ・What You See, What I See—Communication Tailored to Each Individual— (JST Future Society Creation Project, “Realizing a Society Optimized for the Individual” Domain: “Interactive Communication Support in a Neurodiverse Environment”)
• ・Embodiment Simulation: Let’s See the World from the Participant’s Perspective! (Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Moonshot R&D Program, Goal 1: “Cybernetics for Generating Embodied Co-creation”)
• "Development of Tick-Avatar Technology and Social Infrastructure" (Project Cybernetic Being, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Embodied Media Project)
• ・LGBTech: VR for Therapy (Minds1020Lab (Yokohama City University COI-NEXT + Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Embodied Media Project + Juntendo University))
• ・An Emotional Sharing Viewing Experience Through Air-Based Tactile Transmission (Junji Watanabe, NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
• ・"Heart Picnic": A Workshop on Connecting with Your Heartbeat (Junji Watanabe, NTT Communication Science Laboratories)

■The Five Senses in All Their Diversity

• ・See the Invisible “Pain”! The Pepepepain Card Experience (WiTH PAiN)
• ・Sweet and Bitter Shapes — Visualizing Flavor — (Ritsumeikan University, Multisensory and Cognitive Design Laboratory)
• ・What is happening here? (NHK Broadcasting Technology Research Laboratory)
• ・ASD Perceptual Experience Simulator (Cognitive Development Robotics Laboratory, University of Tokyo)
• ・Let's Explore the Conscious and Unconscious Minds (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (in collaboration with the Moon Shot Goal 3 Shimoda Project))
• ・Touch Test (B Lab / Nagoya Institute of Technology Haptics Laboratory / Inamori Institute for Science and Technology, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Embodied Media Project)
• ・Let’s Experience Sensory Integration—the Brain’s Process of Organizing Various Sensory Inputs—Through VR (University of Tokyo, Kuzuoka-Yagawa-Narumi Laboratory; Crystal Road Co., Ltd., Sensory Sensitivity Research Institute)
• ・Sensory Tour (Crystal Road Co., Ltd., Sensory Sensitivity Research Institute)
• ・"Your World" as Seen by the Brain (Center for Brain-Information-Communication Convergence, Future ICT Research Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
• ・Sensory Detective Stamp Rally (Policy Project + B Lab)
• ・Let’s Experience the Scenery We Want to See Through Sound (KDDI Research, Inc.)

■The Expansion of the Self

• ・Slide Lift (AXEREAL Co., Ltd. / Superhuman Sports Project)
• ・Hakkaku (AXEREAL Co., Ltd. / Superhuman Sports Project)
• ・Spirit Overflow (AXEREAL Co., Ltd. / Superhuman Sports Project)
• ・What does “personal expansion” mean? (B Lab)
• ・Jizai Face (Inami-Monnai Laboratory, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
• ・Control a game with your brainwaves! (NTT Human Informatics Laboratories)
• ・Brainwave Racing Game (Center for Brain-Information-Communication Convergence, Future ICT Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
• ・Real and Virtual: Parents and Children Working Together! (Kuzuoka, Tanigawa, and Narumi Laboratory, University of Tokyo)
• ・Working with complete freedom using “Another Body” (Moonshot Goal 1: Project Cybernetic Being (Ori Institute))
• ・Expanding the body and pushing beyond one’s limits (Moon Shot Goal 1: Project Cybernetic Being (Keio University KMD Research Institute + Orii Institute) x WITH ALS x NOUPATHY x Dentsu Science Jam)
• ・Experience others’ techniques firsthand and learn through your own body (Moon Shot Goal 1: Project Cybernetic Being (Nagoya Institute of Technology + Keio University KMD) x Japan Craft Production Areas Association x Ikutouen)
• ・Assisting physical movement to overcome physical decline (Moon Shot Goal 1: Project Cybernetic Being (Nagoya Institute of Technology + Nagoya University School of Medicine + Tokai University))
• ・Exploring a Digitally Expanded World (Moonshot Goal 1: Project Cybernetic Being (Keio University KMD) x NTT DOCOMO x commissure x SPLINE DESIGN HUB)
• ・Walking Through a Digitally Expanded World (Moonshot Goal 1: Project Cybernetic Being (Keio University KMD))
• ・Connecting with an avatar through sensations throughout the body (Moonshot Goal 1: Project Cybernetic Being (Keio University KMD) x Synesthesia Lab (Enhance Experience Inc.))
• ・Controlling a robot’s body to transcend oneself (Moon Shot Goal 1: Project Cybernetic Being (Meiji University + Sony CSL + Tokai University))
• ・Expanding the Mind Through Cybernetic Beings (Moonshot Goal 1: Project Cybernetic Being (University of Tokyo))

■Adjusting the Environment

• ・Color Glasses・Color Simulator (Howdy Co., Ltd. / ViXion Co., Ltd.)
• ・What does it mean that it depends on the environment? (B Lab) What if traffic lights weren't red and blue? (B Lab)
• ・Come to the Music Forest (Minds1020Lab (Yokohama City University COI-NEXT))
• ・Japanese Culture Snoezelen (Policy Project + B Lab)
• ・Mirairo Door: An Automatic Door Designed to Be User-Friendly for Everyone (Howdy Co., Ltd./Fulltech Co., Ltd./Mirairo Co., Ltd.)

■Creating Society

• ・"Calm Down Box" Experience (Crystal Road Co., Ltd., Sensory Sensitivity Research Institute)
• ・"Neu World": Building the Future Together Through Stories (Moon Shot Goal 1: Kanai Project—Internet of Brains)
• ・Understanding Your Child Through Their Developmental Characteristics: LITALICO Developmental Characteristics Assessment (LITALICO, Inc.)
• ・How Can We Get Everyone to Cooperate? (Meiji Gakuin University Experimental Economics Laboratory + Meiji Gakuin University Center for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences + Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B): Research on Academic Transformation—Establishing the Economics of Digital Embodiment (Completed in FY 2023))
• ・Komarigoto Translation (Junji Watanabe (NTT Communication Science Laboratories) + B Lab)
• ・Body Map: Write down your feelings just as you feel them! (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Academic Transformation)
• Area Research (B): Establishing the Economics of Digital Embodiment (Completed in FY 2023) + B Lab)
• ・Environment Map: Share your discoveries! (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Area of Academic Transformation (B): Establishment of the Economics of Digital Embodiment (Completed in FY 2023) + B Lab)
• ・Neurodiversity Award (B Lab)

[Stage Content]

• ■Panel Discussion: The Potential of Neurodiversity
• ■Live Stage: B2J: BRAIN BODY JOCKEY PROJECT
• ■ Symposium: Chomorrow Academia “Hyperfuturism!—Envisioning the Future from the Perspective of Neurodiversity”